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I'm looking to make a program that DM's my friend every day at a certain time. Is this possible? Everything I've found online is through a bot, but I just want to DM him directly through his UserID

Answer 1

Is it possible?
Yes, what a suprize.
Steps
You have to do this 4 easy steps (I use discord.py):
Create a cog
Create a loop
Check if one day is over (let's say you want to DM at 10am)
Send a DM
Start the loop
Step 1
First we create a cog. A cog is just a way to manage your commands, listeners etc. It's a good practice for this. Read more about here: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/commands/cogs.html?highlight=cog
from discord.ext import commands
class DMFriend(commands.Cog):
def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
self.bot = bot
async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(DMFriend(bot))
Step 2
To do this, we use tasks.loop. Let's say, we want to check every 10 minutes if it's 10am.
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
class DMFriend(commands.Cog):
def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
self.bot = bot
#tasks.loop(minutes=10)
async def dm_friend(self):
async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(DMFriend(bot))
Step 3
We use the variable message_sent as a flag, that the DM doesn't get send every time it goes through. Also I do now == 10, because now should have at least one time the value 10 because it goes through (ideally) 6 times an hour.
import datetime
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
class DMFriend(commands.Cog):
def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
self.bot = bot
self.message_sent = False
#tasks.loop(minutes=10)
async def dm_friend(self):
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().hour
if now == 10 and not self.message_sent:
self.message_sent = True
else:
self.message_sent = False
async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(DMFriend(bot))
Step 4
Now we need to send the DM. For that we use bot.get_user() and send()
import datetime
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
class DMFriend(commands.Cog):
def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
self.bot = bot
self.message_sent = False
self.user = self.bot.get_user(USER_ID)
#tasks.loop(minutes=10)
async def dm_friend(self):
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().hour
if now == 10 and not self.message_sent:
await self.user.send("Your DM")
self.message_sent = True
else:
self.message_sent = False
async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(DMFriend(bot))
Step 5
Now we just have to start the loop. For that we create a command.
import datetime
from discord.ext import commands, tasks
class DMFriend(commands.Cog):
def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
self.bot = bot
self.message_sent = False
self.user = self.bot.get_user(USER_ID)
#tasks.loop(minutes=10)
async def dm_friend(self):
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().hour
if now == 10 and not self.message_sent:
await self.user.send("Your DM")
self.message_sent = True
else:
self.message_sent = False
#commands.command()
async def start(self, ctx: commands.Context):
self.dm_friend.start()
async def setup(bot):
await bot.add_cog(DMFriend(bot))
That's it!
Note: This is just an easy go-through. When the bot disconnects (crash, server restart) you'll have to start it again. Also you shouldn't mass DM users, it's against the Discord ToS.